Ploughmen's Front
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The Ploughmen's Front was a Romanian left-wing agrarian-inspired political organisation of ploughmen, founded at Deva in 1933 and led by Petru Groza. At its peak in 1946, the Front had over 1 million members.
June 1945 rally at Stadionul Republicii. From left to right: Romulus Zăroni (at microphone), Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (speaking), Petru Groza (wearing hat), Mihai Ralea
Petru Groza
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Petru Groza was a Romanian politician, best known as the first Prime Minister of the Communist Party-dominated government under Soviet occupation during the early stages of the Communist regime in Romania, and later as the President of the Presidium of the Great National Assembly from 1952 until his death in 1958.
Petru Groza
Groza in a formal attire portrait
![Groza with Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (center), Gheorghe Tătărescu, Petre Constantinescu-Iași, Andrey Vyshinsky, and Ivan Susaikov [ro] at the Bucharest N](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/GrozaTatarescuGheorghiuDejVishinski21945.jpg/600px-GrozaTatarescuGheorghiuDejVishinski21945.jpg)
Groza with Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (center), Gheorghe Tătărescu, Petre Constantinescu-Iași, Andrey Vyshinsky, and Ivan Susaikov [ro] at the Bucharest North railway station, 14 March 1945
Groza (left), with Gheorghe Tătărescu and Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, on a visit to Bulgaria, July 1947